Medical management of ruptured appendicitis in pregnancy

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 114, Issue 2 PART 2 SUPPL., 2009, Pages 453-456

  Young, Brett C ^a   Hamar, Benjamin D ^b   Levine, Deborah ^b   Roqué, Henry ^b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSCESS; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX DISEASE; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; BREECH PRESENTATION; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS OUTCOME; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEUS; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MUSCLE CRAMP; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NULLIPARA; PERITONITIS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; TOCOLYSIS; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL CARE;

EID: 68949109814     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3181998424     Document Type: Article

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